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MOLDOVAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TAKE PROTESTS AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL This week, October 29-31, 2013, in Strasbourg during the 25th session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, the Delegation of the Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova is organizing a first round of public manifestations in European countries. Apart from the official address to the Congress on the gravity of the situation soliciting simultaneously a post-monitoring mission for Moldova, apart from the official meetings and declaration at the Plenary session of the Congress, a Delegation of twenty Moldovan mayors representing the leadership of the Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova – will be organizing an information flash mob action in support of the public administration and democracy reforms in Moldova and a press conference with the European media. 01.11.2013		MOLDOVAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS PROTESTS FOR LOCAL AND NATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND FOR FINANCIAL DECENTRALIZATION On October 11, 2013 in Chisinau over 300 mayors took part in the local democracy and local government support demonstration to say decisive “NO” to the degradation of public administration system and decisive “YES” to local and national democracy in Moldova. 12.10.2013

CALM Women Mayors Network Representatives participated at the first meeting of the League of Women Mayors of Communes of Romania During June 20 – 23, 2013, Mamaia, Romania representatives of CALM Women Mayors Network participated at the first session of the League of Women Mayors of Communes of Romania established by ACoR. The event brought together over 50 participants from both Associations. 24.06.2013		Meeting between CALM and Association of Local Authorities from Lithuania Friday, June 21, 2013, in Chisinau under the auspices of the Congress of Local Authorities of Moldova (CALM) was held the meeting with representatives of the Association of Local Authorities from Lithuania. The event that was attended by about 30 representatives of local governments from Moldova and Lithuania aimed at sharing the experience of Lithuania in the process of decentralization and strengthening of local autonomy and the establishment of partnerships between representatives of the Association of Local Authorities from Lithuania and Moldova. 22.06.2013

NEXPO 2013 & Matchmaking Platform National Promotional Event On June 20, 2013 Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova (CALM) in partnership with the Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS) organized the NEXPO National Promotional Event within the project "Establishment of a Matchmaking Platform for local governments and the business sector" supported by GIZ/ORF. 21.06.2013		Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe NALAS is a network of associations of local authorities of South East Europe. The Network brings together 16 Associations which represent roughly 9000 local authorities, directly elected by more than 80 million citizens of this region. The NALAS Secretariat, based in Skopje, is responsible for the overall coordination and the implementation of the activities. 14.05.2013 nalas.eu

On April 26, 2013, the first workshop for Moldovan Local Public Authorities was held by CIAL. The title of the training was "Capacity-building of Local Public Authorities in applying for external funding" The event was attended by guests of honour, Ms Svetlana ROGOV, Head of International Relations and Investments Department at the Ministry of Regional Development and Construction, Mr Kent Larson, Country Director USAID / Moldova and Mr Tudor Meșina, Director of Agency for Regional Development for Moldova's central region. Guests of honour underlined in their welcome speeches the importance of organizing such workshops for APL in Moldova. 27.04.2013		Workshop on Public Procurements During April 17 – 18, 2013 representatives of the Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova participated at a 2-day workshop on "Public Procurement". The workshop was led by Steen Jensen international expert from Denmark, and Catherine Grib, local expert. The objective was to familiarize LPA representatives from Moldova with the best practices in public procurement, sharing the experiences and capacity building of LPA employees to better manage the process of such an important area as public procurement. 19.04.2013

Vulnerable groups – and their access to water supply services: a concern for CALM! "Access of vulnerable groups to services of water supply and sanitation" was the theme of the round table that took place at the initiative of the Congress of local Authorities of Moldova on April 17, 2013 in CALM premises. The event hosted over 20 women mayors members of CALM Women Mayors Network. 18.04.2013		Roundtable "Inter-municipal Cooperation for improvement of local public services of water supply and sanitation: from theory to practice" On April 16, 2013, in Chisinau at the initiative of CALM in partnership with the GIZ Moldova was organized the roundtable "Inter-municipal Cooperation for improvement of local public services of water supply and sanitation: from theory to practice". 17.04.2013

Meeting of CALM representatives with the Speaker of the Parliament of Republic of Moldova Mr. Marian Lupu On April 16, 2013 CALM Executive Director Mr. Viorel Furdui and CALM Programme Coordinator Mr. Alexandru Osadci met with Parliament Speaker Mr. Marian Lupu. At the meeting was discussed a broad spectrum of topics while the main focus was on Local Public Finance Reform and its unacceptable delay. 17.04.2013		Local Public Authorities from Republic of Moldova are deprived of the right of approval the tariffs for services of water supply and sanitation On April 11, 2013 within Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova premises was held the meeting of CALM Commission for local public services. The event was organized in the context of registration in the Parliament of the draft law nr. 122 from 18. 03. 2013 with regard to water supply and sanitation and its preparation for approval on first reading. 12.04.2013

Participation of CALM Delegation to the 3rd Assises of Decentralised Cooperation for development in Brussels During 9-10 April, 2013 the Delegation of Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova headed by CALM President Mrs. Tatiana Badan participated in the work of the 3rd Assises of Decentralised Cooperation for development co-organized by the Committee of the Regions and the European Commission in Brussels. With this occasion CALM submitted an Official Address to organizers and participants of the EU Assises of Decentralized Cooperation. 11.04.2013		CALM active involvement in development of Laws and Laws Amendment CALM is actively involved in developing new Laws related to LPA domain and amending the existing ones. Whenever a ministry, parliament committee, public agency or Local Authority is coming with proposals for amending laws related to LPA domain or comes with law initiatives, CALM is providing, on permanent basis, its legal opinion resulted from the consultations with its members. 30.03.2013

Meeting of the Association of District Presidents within CALM On 29 March 2013 in Ungheni District Council took place the meeting of the Association of District Presidents within the CALM. The aim of the meeting, at which participated CALM leadership and Distric Presidents, was to discuss the most recent problems and developments that are faced by Local Public Administration. 30.03.2013		Meeting of the Association of District Presidents within CALM On 29 March 2013 in Ungheni District Council took place the meeting of the Association of District Presidents within the CALM. The aim of the meeting, at which participated CALM leadership and Distric Presidents, was to discuss the most recent problems and developments that are faced by Local Public Administration. 30.03.2013

Round table "The need in statistical data to assess the impact of decentralization on the LPA" On 28 March 2013 Congress of Local Authorities in Moldova in cooperation with UNICEF Moldova organized a round table "The need in statistical data to assess the impact of decentralization on the LPA". The aim of the round table was to present the results of the policy study with the same title, which was aimed at the analysis of the situation and drawing up proposals for improving the process of data collection and monitoring within the Small Area Deprivation Indicators (SADI) database, as well as their dissemination process through DevInfo software platform. 29.03.2013		Participation of CALM Delegation to the 24th Session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe During 19-21 March 2013 CALM Delegation consisting of 20 mayors plus National Delegation of Moldova – 5 persons (mayors and districts presidents) participated in the work of 24th session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. 22.03.2013

Meeting with the Ambassador of Hungary On February 12, 2013 in CALM’s office took place the meeting between the Ambassador of Hungary in Republic of Moldova, H.E. Dr. Varga György and CALM leadership. The objective of the meeting was to get acquainted and to establish constructive long term relationships. During the meeting was discussed the actual situation in local public administration both in Republic of Moldova and Hungary, as well were found common grounds that can be useful for future collaboration. CALM found out about similar Associations in Hungary and possibility for establishing contacts with them. Also mayors that were present at the meeting expressed their great interest for twinning opportunities with municipalities from Hungary. In this respect CALM will collect a database on interested municipalities. A separate subject was facilitation of Schengen visa issuance procedures for CALM members by the consulate of Hungary that hosts the Common Application Centre for 16 countries most of them members of Schengen Zone. 13.02.2013		Local Public Finance Law Amended by CALM On February 12, 2013 CALM representatives had a productive and fruitful meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Finance over the amendment of the Law on Local Public Finance. The major subject was introduction in Republic of Moldova of the Personal Income Tax (PIT) collected and shared at the place of residence instead of actual PIT collected at the employer’s registration address. At the same time CALM is working closely for amending the Law on Local Public Finance with the Parliament Committee on Public Administration and Regional Development. Besides PIT lots of amendments are envisaged the main the main accent being on changes in the transfers system from Central level directly to LPA of level 1 instead of transfers Center - Level 2 (districts) – Level 1 (municipalities) and considerable financial resources were not reaching their final destination. For years we talk about these changes and the political will was not there. Now the situation changed both in Government’s mind and will so CALM is acting urgently and decisively in order not to lose the momentum. 13.02.2013

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